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Show WHAT BECOMES OF MULE87 H One Man Doubts If They Ever Die a Natural Death. IH Two men stood nenr tho approach IH to tho Dearborn street brldgo ono day H last week, watching a small team ot H mules straining nl tho tugs to pull a H heavily loaded wagon up tho incline, IB says tho Chicago Inter Ocean. H "Did you uvcr sco a dead mulo?" asked ono of tho men. H "Don't bollove I ever did," answered H tho "Did you 7" H "Only once, nnd that ono got In tho way of n mall train nnil was knocked higher than Gllroy's kite. Ho wasn't exactly dead when ho hit tho ground, H hut his owner put him out of his H misery with nn old squirrel rifle. fl "I'vo often wondered whnt became H of nil tho long-cared brutes. I'vo seen H thousands of them thnt looked as old as tho hills, but I never heard ot ono dying a natural death, ..You otton aeo a dead horse, but It would ho worth a B good deal to sec a dead mulo thnt had H not been executed. I heard of a few mules being killed In tho army by being hit with six-pound shot, but I never snw It dono nnd I doubt tho truthfulness of my Informant. I also henrd of a mulo graveyard down In Missouri, but when 1 went to look for fl It no ono could toll In what part ot tho stato It was located. All had H heard ot It, but no ono had over seen IH "My grnndfnthor owned a span ot mules when 1 was a llttlo boy. Ho . couldn't remember how long ho hnd jH been driving them. When tho good H old man died thoy beenmo tho propor- ty ot my fnthor. Ho kept them for a long tlmo and then Bold thetn for H Bovcn-ycnr-old animals. I lost track of thorn when they passed to tho now H owner, but I'll wager that they aro.ltv- H lng yet If thoy haven't been struck by H lightning. Yes, sir, for a fact, I'vo al- H ways had a hankering to eco n mulo H dlo a natural death." H |